Electroconvulsive therapy has a great track record, but a bad reputation. The therapy is effective in up to 80% of patients who receive the treatment, most often for depression but occasionally ...

In the 1960s, a hospital in London held a ward full of women who suffered from a range of mental disorders. The women in this ...

For the record, yes, electroshock therapy — known medically as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) — is a real thing. But it's a little different from how it was portrayed on the show.

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT): A Scotland Wide Naturalistic Study of 4,826 treatment episodes (O0100) Introduction: Despite its apparent efficacy in the treatment of a range of psychiatric ...

Electroconvulsive therapy carries a negative image in popular culture and is not commonly prescribed because of the stigma surrounding it. However, many proponents say it is safer, more effective ...

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The physical risks of electroconvulsive therapy are discussed on the basis of a material of 8082 treatments received by 628 patients. Thirty-one of them were over sixty, and 5 over seventy years ...

When I tell people about the electroconvulsive therapy my autistic 15-year-old son Jonah has been getting for the past four years, the response has been … surprise, certainly. Curiosity ...

Electroconvulsive therapy being used on teens in NHS trusts. Dr Sue Cunliffe tells Sky News she was left with severe brain injury after receiving 21 shocks in ECT. Monday 14 January 2019 08:06, UK.